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🐎 Seahorse Pivot Feeding: Spring-Loaded Head Snap and the Suction Flow That Catches a Copepod

A seahorse stores energy in a tendon, releases its head in about 3 ms and draws a copepod in with a short suction pulse that fades as 1/r^3. Tune the spring, drag, prey reaction and suction to see when the strike works, and compare with closed-form checks.

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